Sentence examples for a humbling beginning from inspiring English sources

"I think it's a humbling beginning.

The show had a humble beginning, with about 12 million viewers on average, middling by CBS standards at the time.

From a humble beginning in Brooklyn where he graduated from Brooklyn College, to a life of depth and great accomplishments, he lived life to the fullest.

ZHANG GUIDONG GREW up on a farm in Anhui, a poor inland province, where China's economic reforms made a humble beginning.

The political reverberations still rumbling through southeast Queens — the heart of middle-class black New York — can be traced to a humble beginning.

The awful irony of this campaign is that Barack Obama worked his way from a humble beginning to the top of his class at one of the nation's finest law schools only to be tagged an "elitist" for speaking beautifully.

Servis knew the horse had some ability well before he got him to that race, but even he has been surprised by what has happened since a humble beginning to the horse's career, a victory in a maiden race at Philadelphia Park.

Two houses with a combined 10 bedrooms may be a humble beginning to the student housing co-operative movement but Farmelo believes his model – and the UK student housing network he intends to establish – could eventually help replicate the more established large-scale student housing co-operatives found in American universities.

It was a humble beginning.

A humble beginning, but much has changed.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), with a humble beginning about 60 years ago, developed rockets, satellite building, communication, and remote sensing technologies.